On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01:40, Linux Rox wrote: > Believe it or not, I _have_ a TiVo! I just find it a > pain to use it for unattended recording. Sure, it is > fine for pausing live action; but I'd like to be able > to do more with the TiVo, and to be able to program it > remotely if I need to. I know, people have hacked > network cards onto the TiVo; I don't want to go that > route. > Sometimes, I find myself wanting to record 2 different > programs on 2 different channels with conflicting > times. > Therefore, I hit upon this brilliant(!) idea of > putting together my own PVR box using a pair of > hardware-based-compression cards, an FM tuner (to > record the occasional "This American Life", and "BBC > News", which is broadcast at an unearthly hour), a > TVout card that I already have (Nvidia), and a > reasonably fast machine with a CD burner. > I do research in "text categorization" too, and > eventually I'd like to use my research to > automatically record programs that my viewing habits > indicate might be of interest to me. :-) > Hardware compression is the only way to go, if you > have multiple video sources (heck, I don't think > software compression will work with even 1 source, in > realtime). > > From the replies to my question, it looks like the > Matrox G200TV PCI is the best bet for now (PCI is a > must, since I want to put multiple cards in the same > chassis). If you have any other recommendations, > please let me know. >
Maybe this is of interest for you: http://www.linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml Further there was some discussions on the vdr-list if dish-network may works. Maybe you should ask if somebody had allready tried it. Don't know how much DVB content in US is. Further there is the wintv pvr-card . that do hardware-encoding. > Thank you everyone for your comments and > recommendations. > > --- John Ribera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want a Linux based PVR hassle-free, it would > > be cheapest, time and > > money, to purchace a end-user product such as TIVO. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Mjpeg-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users -- ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
